Unique Ships of the U.S. Navy

Re:Unique Ships of the U.S. Navy by philwelch on Friday January 30, 2015 @08:41PM (#8975546)

The Navy tried Windows NT once, but it crashed and the ship had to be towed to harbor: http://gcn.com/Articles/1998/07/13/Software-glitches-leave-N...

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Re:Unique Ships of the U.S. Navy by Amezarak on Friday January 30, 2015 @11:21PM (#8975871)

That's misleading. The failure had nothing to do with Windows NT, which is still used in the Navy.

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Re:Unique Ships of the U.S. Navy by philwelch on Saturday January 31, 2015 @02:21AM (#8976139)

Yes, but that ruins what in 1998 was a highly amusing story.

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